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More than 40 bodies were found in a large trailer parked in the southern United States near Mexico.
People who secretly crossed the border in a car in Mexico are believed to have died of suffocation in the heat.
Correspondent Kim Young-ah.
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Fire trucks and police cars surrounded a large trailer standing on the side of the road.
46 bodies were found in a large trailer parked on the southwestern outskirts of San Antonio, Texas.
Sixteen survivors, including four children, were also found, all of whom were exhausted.
At that time, the outside temperature reached 40 degrees Celsius, and the inside temperature inside the trailer left in the scorching sun rose significantly, like a steamer.
No drinking water was found inside the trailer, but local police estimated that close to 100 people were on board.
[Charles Hood/San Antonio Fire Chief: The bodies of the survivors were too hot to touch.
He showed symptoms of heat stroke, high fever, and exhaustion.
There was no sign of water in the vehicle.] The
victims were believed to be illegal immigrants trying to enter the United States from Mexico.
[Ron Nirenberg/San Antonio Mayor: These are people who were trying to find a better life, but it is a terrible tragedy.]
San Antonio, southern Texas, facing Mexico, receives an estimated 20,000 illegal immigrants a day to cross the border on a trailer. where it is flocked.
In 2017, 10 migrants were found dead in a trailer parked at a large mart, and in 2003, 19 people were also found dead in the trailer.
Police arrested three people in connection with the case and are investigating the possibility of human trafficking.
(Video editing: Yonghwa Jung)